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I’ve seen many ways of grouping C# source over the years, but one that I never fully appreciated as being disgusting until this year was grouping like PMEs: public methods, protected methods, etc.
Sure, many source formatting guidelines (and perhaps even default StyleCop settings) suggest this grouping style. But, tell me: what is useful about this?
Here’s ... 9 Dec 2009
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The November 2009 Silverlight Toolkit is essentially a tools and infrastructure release on top of the October 2009 release (where we first introduced Visual Studio 2010 support). It also adds a Silverlight 4 Beta version.
New infrastructure & test tools ship in the Silverlight Toolkit
There is a lot in the release that is joining publicly for ... 20 Nov 2009
The Silverlight Controls Browser sample app can now be taken out-of-browser. Here's info on that, plus how to get it done in your own apps. 19 Nov 2009
BusyIndicator is a new control included in the November 2009 release of the Silverlight Toolkit. 19 Nov 2009
The November 2009 release of the Silverlight Toolkit finally includes application library caching support to help reduce the size of your application .Xaps. 19 Nov 2009
It’s now even easier to get started with the Silverlight Toolkit, an excellent complement to your Silverlight development environment. The latest Silverlight 3 release of the Silverlight Toolkit is now available on the Web PI. It is now the recommended way of getting the toolkit.
Here’s a link to the installer, if you don’t already ... 4 Nov 2009
Here's a simple tool that I use to round-trip Silverlight solutions and projects between Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2010 Beta. Use it at your own risk, but enjoy! 22 Oct 2009
Here are the application library cache files needed to reduce the size of your Silverlight 3 application's size when using the Silverlight Toolkit. 20 Oct 2009
The October 2009 release of the Silverlight Toolkit is out, and includes easy drag and drop components and an awesome Visual Studio 2010 experience for the toolkit controls. 19 Oct 2009
After using the Starbucks mobile card app for iPhone, I set out to create similar 2D barcodes in Silverlight 3. 30 Sep 2009
If you’re using existing imaging libraries with your Silverlight applications, they often represent a Color from the System.Drawing world in the full framework as an integer. An ARGB value is a 32-bit integer with the byte-ordering of AARRGGBB. Using some simple bit shifts and an extension method, you can have this functionality in Silverlight as ... 23 Sep 2009
The awesome online Sunday Night Football experience features the Accordion control from the Silverlight Toolkit. 14 Sep 2009
Here's an initial set of guidelines for building Silverlight custom controls. The first of hopefully many more posts. 26 Aug 2009
Here's a Visual Basic implementation of HighlightingTextBlock for Silverlight 3. 26 Aug 2009
Now that Silverlight 3 has shipped, I’d like to take a moment to revisit the highlighting AutoCompleteBox control that I blogged about back in November of ‘08, and again earlier this year, thanks to tooling improvements: Expression Blend 3 is out, and the Visual Studio 2008 tools have changed as well. There are new project ... 26 Aug 2009
Two weeks ago, I posted the July 2009 release of the Silverlight Unit Test Framework online for folks looking for updated bits. Of course, the real gem is the Silverlight 3 version. Now that Silverlight 3 has shipped, you should definitely look at moving forward to this great new version.
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I’ve updated the MSDN ... 16 Jul 2009
Here are two nice posts by Jimmy Schementi, one showing simple testing in Python, the other using IronRuby to actually test C# apps! 8 Jul 2009
If you're looking to learn more about Silverlight unit testing, here are 3 screencasts of interest. 1 Jul 2009
Just posting a general update here, hopefully this isn’t syndicated on the Silverlight site or anything .
I am sorry that all has been quiet on the blog front for a while, as summer rolls around we always find a way to keep busy with a strong set of work items, feature work, and sunshine ... 1 Jul 2009
If you're doing Silverlight 2 development with the unit test framework, you might want to check out the latest release that includes bug fixes and a few small new features. 1 Jul 2009
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